Need help with value

[DeadheadNM]

If you get the time, look through the past Blazer auctions on Bring A Trailer just to see what’s sold. Survivor white Highlander brought $58k recently. I don’t perceive much of a premium for a given year but by numbers they’ll always be more available 72s.

What I find most surprising is that bidders seldom if ever ask questions that touch on originality or completeness.

[K5Fan]

Let us know what you get it for. Like SeventyOne said, if you get it for 1200, you stole it. From what I can tell, it looks like a great project, body looks good with all the emblems and lenses, seats, roll bar. It even has the new in dash Nav system, AC in the seats and cupholders...

Sorry, that's my new Tahoe LTZ. Could bring 5K, depending on how good of a friend he is!

[DeadheadNM]

Originally Posted by d4hartley

Thanks for all the comments and help. He said he'd come up with a price in the next couple days so we'll see if I get a Jimmy by the weekend.

Did you get the Jimmy?

[d4hartley]

Originally Posted by DeadheadNM

Did you get the Jimmy?

Sorry for the late update I went out of town. He decided not to sell it to me. One of those "maybe I'll fix it in the future" types. So I guess it will sit in the field for another few years. I'll keep trying though for sure.

[d4hartley]

Originally Posted by K5Fan

Let us know what you get it for. Like SeventyOne said, if you get it for 1200, you stole it. From what I can tell, it looks like a great project, body looks good with all the emblems and lenses, seats, roll bar. It even has the new in dash Nav system, AC in the seats and cupholders...

Sorry, that's my new Tahoe LTZ. Could bring 5K, depending on how good of a friend he is!

I offered 4k after he never gave me a price but he turned it down. Said he'd keep it for now. Bummer but I'll keep trying.

[DeadheadNM]

Thanks for the follow up. Keep hope alive.

[Blazerowner]

I wanted say I think the values are going up because new vehicles are so freaking expensive. My uncle just bought a 21 ram 2500 all decked out and it was almost 90k. I like new but yikes.

[SeventyOne]

Originally Posted by Blazerowner

I wanted say I think the values are going up because new vehicles are so freaking expensive. My uncle just bought a 21 ram 2500 all decked out and it was almost 90k. I like new but yikes.

Well the heart of this is inflation. People make more money, prices increase, rinse, repeat, until the end of time. Throw in the increasing rarity of these trucks every year and there you go.

[Classics Fan]

Originally Posted by SeventyOne

Well the heart of this is inflation. People make more money, prices increase, rinse, repeat, until the end of time. Throw in the increasing rarity of these trucks every year and there you go.

You’re right but it goes deeper. There has to be a passion, a desire to possess something before the things you mention kick in. Simply being old and/or rare doesn’t necessarily translate into higher value. Our trucks are highly desirable right now so values are rising. Someday (hopefully way in the future) the values will level off when demand does as another vehicle takes its place in the ranks of desirability. There is always the possibility of values actually retracting some day, particularly if prices enter a ‘bubble’. I’m seeing what I think are some wild prices recently. I, for one, hope it continues but question the sustainable.
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[d4hartley]

Update on the Jimmy. He called today said he needed the money more so we took the trailer and picked it up finally. Got a bunch of extra stuff with it ill sort out and take some more pictures. Thanks for the help.

[d4hartley]

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[DeadheadNM]

Congrats. Glad that worked out. I wasn’t able to launch that link.

[litebulblsc]

https://gyazo.com/24a2d64164e1169f879cdb9e782ef9e4

[d4hartley]

Here's more pictures. Needs some rust addressed but nothing too major. Going to clean it up a little and try and get it running soon.

[K5Fan]

I'm glad to see that the first thing you did was drain the old fluid from the Fireball bottle on the floorboard!! I would say flush that out a few more times with new fluid and you'll be good to go. Keep sending pics!

[DeadheadNM]

Flint built maybe with an early sequence number (I’m not clear w GMC numbers though). Does it happen to have a double wall top or speaker grille holes atop the dash as seen in a pickup?

[72gmguy]

I like it! I’m a sucker for turbine wheels too.

[d4hartley]

Turbine wheels are definitely staying on it. As far as the speaker grills I'll get a picture when I'm off work.

[litebulblsc]

Originally Posted by DeadheadNM

Flint built maybe with an early sequence number (I’m not clear w GMC numbers though). Does it happen to have a double wall top or speaker grille holes atop the dash as seen in a pickup?

Single wall from this picture

https://gyazo.com/578d2629fa92809dcab99bb2748f9670

[d4hartley]

Definitely single wall I believe and no speaker grills on top of the dash

[DeadheadNM]

Thanks for posting. It seems that Flint began building 72s with double walls like St Louis then shortly into the model year began installing single wall tops. Briefly, the typical style tubs were used with single wall tops and these K5s used the external speaker. After these the Flint tubs had the pickup style speaker location. If interested, here's a thread where I've tried to tease out details: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=701826